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thursday i vol xii no 285 a m Chicago examiner Chicago november 19 1914 thursday registered u s patent office nmrc imc fcmt in Chicago and â€¢ elsewhebe pricl jlnfc ct-in 1 suburbs â€¢ two cents roberts body home king to go to funeral ascot england nov 18 â€” the body of field marshal earl roberts reached his home here this afternoon it is understood kins george will extend the funeral services at st paul's london emperor decorates mrs f . penfield berlin nov 18 â€” emperor franz josef of austria has conferred upon mrs frederic penfield wife of the american ambassador at vienna the grand cross of the order of eliza beth in recognition of the extraor dinary efforts she has made for the welfare of austrian soldiers aus trian newspapers emphasize the merits of this distinction which for the first time is conferred upon a woman not connected with the im perial family kaiser says holy war is proclaimed amsterdam nov 18 â€” according to a berlin dispatch the kaiser has sent the following telegram to the crown prince the sheikfi-ul islam has published a fetwa declaration of sacred law according to which every mussulman must as a religious duty fight to the uttermost against eng land russia and france oppressors of islam this fetwa to be distrib uted throughout the entire moham medan world is now proclaimed to pilgrims in mecca this means a holy war for the whole islamic world sighed william berlin offers new fashion in whiskers paris nov 18 â€” here are two daily fashion hints from berlin as they are published in paris dundreary weepers are the prop er face ornaments for soldiers at a barbers conference just held in eerlin it was decided that the ideal whiskers should resemble the aus trian kaiser's combined with tlie up turned mustache of the german em peror berlin dressmakers who are cam paigning to oust paris fashions have evolved popular war blouses of red end blue silk with gilt buttons fibs wreck health says woman doctor dr louisa burns of the a t still research institute 122 south ash land boulevard declares that continu ous telling of lies will wreck t health it will also make a woman grow old early the telling of a lie raises the blood pressure she says the sphygmo manometer substantiates this the blood pressure being raised continuously by continuous lying pro duces arterio sclerosis rockefeller's deer overrun tarrytown tarrytown n y nov 18 â€” there is nothing snobbish about john d rockefeller's deer they mix with the village folk as democratically as does their wealthy owner and every morning at least six of them follow the pocantico hills mail messenger into the postoffice here they roam about the streets unmolested and often allow the townspeople to pet them or feed them sugar p d armour to wed in new york jan 8 new york nov 18 â€” it was an nounced to-day that the marriage of miss gwendolyn b condon to philip d armour will take place on january 8 in the church of heavenly rest there will be a reception at the house of miss condon's parents mr and mrs thomas g condon at 50 east seventy-fifth street one fight will end carranza asserts villa by john w roberts general leading army to mexico city says he has trapped ex-president ei paso tex nov is general villa has caused the arrest of pres ident gutierrez following the discov ery of a plot to deliver the aguas calientes convention to carranza ac cording to dispatches to the latter's agents here orapuato mex nov 18 â€” gen eral villa's dash toward mexico city continued to-day with the celerity for which the northern leader is noted guanajuato capital of the state of the same name was taken last night by the troops under general eugenio aguirre benavides carranzistas troops have been found in all the principal towns but | thus far they have invariably fled upon the approach of the forces of the northern army up to to-night not a life has been lost on either side since the advance on mexico city from aguas calientes began carranza's men desert this morning 2,000 carranzista troops under general luis elizondo entered leon and joined the cause of the convention general villa spent the greater part of to-day in leon in conference with provisional president guiterrez the president will return to aguas ca lientes to-morrow while general villa will start for this city villa consented to be interviewed to-day predicts one big fight there will be one big fight in this new war and that will take place at either queretaro or puebla it is pos sible that the carranzistas will make i only slight resistance at queretaro but i feel certain that they will con centrate their entire strength for tho defense of puebla said villa what do you think of carranza's last conditions i think the old man has at last fallen into a trap when pablo gon zales sent a wire saying that the only condition to be imposed for the re tirement of carranza was that i leave the country i had a lengthy confer ence with president gutierrez fol lowing which i offered to tender my resignation and leave at once for the united states i told president gutierrez how ever that i did not believe carranza counted upon my resignation and that he merely imposed this condition be cause he thought it would be safe being convinced that i would not comply with the demand i told gutierrez and others by telegraph that it would be a good thing to let carranza know at once that i was leaving the country i told them that if carranza was sin cere he would at once announce sis readiness to give up the office of first chief and withdraw as i had done gutierrez sent the wire and the trap was set not twenty-four hours later came carranza's message imposing three absolutely new and impossible condi tions when president gutierrez 1 wired me the text of carranza's reply 1 i laughed till my stomach ached carranza fell into a trap he proved to the world by his conditions â– that he would not abide by the aguas calientes convention findnigs as ! soon as i heard his conditions i ended the truce and ordered my troops to ; move against the carranzistas 20,(100 to be massed : to-night the northern army is scat tered along the main line of the na tional railway from aguas calientes to a point some fifty kilometers south of this place probably there are not more than 2,000 men at any one point it is said to be villa's plan to con centrate at least 20,000 men here it is planned to send a large force from this city to take possession of guad alajara which is held by the troops of general obregon's division of the northwest under general miguel die i guez governor of jalisco it is con i sidered doubtful if any resistance i will be offered by the guadalajara garrison following the occupation of guad i alajara the attack at queretaro will i be made colonel carlos dominguez in com 1 mand of the vanguard of the conven ' tion army with 3,ooo men is to-night ! a short distance north of queretaro hoyne bushes east on secret missiofi state's attorney hoyne left for new vork yesterday on a secret mission it was reported an important arrest in the clairvoyant trust cases had been made and that he was to ques tion the prisoner clean simple valiant kipling says of roberts london nov 19 here are three stanzas of a poem by rud yard kipling on lord roberts printed in to-day's daily tele graph he passed in the very hattle smoke of the war that he had descried three hundred mile of cannon spoke when the master gunner died he passed to the very sound of the guns â– but before his eyes grew dim he had seen the faces of the sons whose sires had served with him clean simple valiant well be loved ; flawless in faith and fame avhom neither ease nor honor moved a hair's breadth from his aim u s flag ripped down in antwerp belgian declares germans then bought new one on demand of american consul london nov 18 â€” according to the daily news a belgian who ar rived in london to-night described the following incident in antwerp german soldiers tore down the american flag from the red star line office where some american ! goods were stored they ' tore it in half and then destroyed it hut when the american consul came along and demanded the flag they said they could not find it the consul then demanded they buy a new one when it was brought he hoisted it and tore down the ger man flag treating it ill the same way his own flag had been treated germans equal any troops says briton special cable to the examiner london nov 18 â€” a british gen eral commanding a brigade at the front writes in the times i am disgusted by newspaper ac counts of the inferiority of the ger mans as soldiers don't believe one word of it their courage efficiency and organization are of the very best they never were surpassed by any troops they come on in masses against our trenches and machine guns and come time after time they are always on the offensive lara full of admiration for them and so are all who know anything about them victoria b c fears attack by germans victoria b c nov 18 â€” victoria is in hourly terror of attack by a german fleet the marine depart ment of canada has ordered all light houses closed near the entrance to the harbor and has discontinued most of the light service on more distant coast points masters have been or dered to obey strictly all naval de partment regulations all lights from the international line north ward may be extinguished and cer tain channels of navigation closed race to die she says unless women vote frau rosika schwimmer who will lecture to-night in fullerton hall art instiute believes that five hun dred years will see the extermination of the human race unless women are allowed a voice in public affairs she began her peace propaganda immedi ately on entering the city yesterday she declared the war in europe could be stopped by a week o discussion woman found dying in new aurora mystery tennessee s captain warned not to lommit hostile act sultan snavyviolatesÃŸalkanneutrality victim of slugger is found in churchyard assassin crushes woman's head e with wrench case rivals hoi < lander slaying laundry mark ; 2243 only clew to identity i j ( the death beit of the fox river j valley has furnished another woman ) mystery that promises to outrival the unsolved killing of theresa hol lander and the murder of mildred rexroat whose death score was wiped clean when henry spencer was hanged a well dressed woman unidenti fied wearing three rings her head beaten and battered by blows from a heavy pipe wrench so that she could not talk was found in the yard of the free methodist church clark street and lincoln avenue aurora last night she was hurried to a hospital and anxious police tried to get from her some clew to her iden tity mentions woman upstairs 89-92-105-106 she muttered before j lapsing into unconsciousness early this morning the woman responded slightly to operations of surgeons and made a futile attempt to give her name her incoherent words indi cated however that she was married and lived in an apartment house mrs mrs upstairs she muttered then her voice turned again to the repetition of numerals physicians are attempting to re move a part of the crushed-in skull in the hope that with this pressure off her brain the woman may be able to reveal her identity it was de clared though that she could not pos sibly live â– she was found within half an hour of the time she was struck down and though the corner is on a car line in the city's best residence district the police have not yet found any one i who heard any sound of the struggle , which the torn grass shows the wom an made man seen near spot they have but one clew to work on a man was seen around the corner within half an hour of the time the woman was found and he was seen loitering around the same corner for two nights past here is the meager description of him about thirty years old smooth shaven long light overcoat black soft hat the woman was discovered by wal ter woodworth a ftfteen-year-old boy the boy was returning from a moving picture show and saw the body huddled close to the hedge he stopped a lincoln avenue car and the crew turned the headlight so that it revealed the woman top of head beaten the top of her head had been beaten in three feet from the body lay a heavy pipe wrench its iron head stained with blood the grease stains on the wrench show the po lice believe that it had been in use within the past twenty hours and was not a mere chance weapon the woman appeared to be about forty years old five feet five inches tall and about 130 pounds in weight her hair was blond streaked with gray her clothes were of fine quality and modern cut she wore ,\ gray silk dress a blue tailored eoat a purple plush hat trimmed with a lavender bow and purple lowers lightweight underwear silk stockings black shoes on her wedding ring finger was a plain gold band and a garnet set seal on the third finger of her right hand was a ruby ring worth 200 over her hands were black silk gloves and in one glave was a house key petrograd asserts whole issue of the war is likely to be settled soon as result of attack by germans london nov 19 a wireless from berlin says the german capital is celebrating a great victory won by general hindenberg in eussian poland the losses of the czar's army are estimated at 40,000 men * london nov 19 â€” a dispatch to the daily mail from liban says : it is reliably stated that a ger man cruiser sank during the bom bardment of libau after striking a mine in the harbor petrograd nov 18 â€” the of ficial statement issued to-night says between the vistula and the warthe our advance guards fell back in the direction of bzoure when the enemy took the offensive the germans succeeded in gaining a footing in the region of lent chitza and orloff throwing our advance guards in the direction of piontek in east prussia our troops con tinue to make progress and fight ing is going on near the gumbin nen-angerburg front on the front along the mazurian lakes our troops reached the wire entanglements of the german posi tion and forced them in galicia we have occupied the passes over the carpathians the general staff of the navy is sued this statement to-night on the morning of november 17 a german squadron of two cruisers ten torpedo boats and several other steamers appeared before libau the germans bombarded the city and harbor setting on fire several buildings special war dispatches of tlie ex aminer and london daily telegraph petrograd nov 18 â€” what is possibly the most critical battle yet fought on this side of the theater of war is progressing in the northwest corner of russian poland so far no details of the course the struggle is taking have been divulged here the last announcement of the general staff merely states the engagement between the vistula and i the warthe has assumed the charac ter of a big battle with considerable forces of the enemy it was a clear counter-attack the germans had made it necessary for j the russian army to concentrate some distance to the rear of the line reached by its right flank in the westerly advance the movement has also been rather sudden as the ger mans were being driven out of rypin as recently as november 13 checks russ advance it looks rather like a check to the victorious progress of the russian soldiers the semi-official army mes senger however holds out hopes that the battle will not only terminate with the defeat of the germans but may prove a long step toward the successful conclusion of the whole campaign a new phase of the war has opened this organ says the kaiser is attempting to withstand our for ! ward movement with small forces while he concentrates on one point , all his best troops we are on the i eve of decisive events which will set tle the whole issue of the european war and bring with them the possi bility of the defeat of germany land mines work havoc in the terrible hand-to-hand strug gle along the mazurian lakes the i russians are beating the german easternmost army the battles are capt b c decker commander of the u s cruiser tennessee who has been ordered away from turkey for fear complica tions will follow the firing on his launch by a smyrna fort fifty americans in smyrna in peril cables from ambassador held up envoy directed to get explanation apology will be demanded unless excuse for shot at cruiser is good washington nov 18 fear that the united states might become embroiled in the european war as an outcome of the firing by the turks on the cruiser tennessee's launch at smyrna was hinted to-night in an official statement from the navy department it read : secretary daniels has sent a message to the captains of the tennessee and north carolina both of which are in the medifer ranean to take no action that could involve this government with out specific instructions from the navy department the messages to captain decker of the tennessee and to captain oman of the north carolina were dispatched by cable to-night after sec retary daniels had conferred with acting secretary of state lansing the gravity of the situation that suddenly has arisen from the unex plained firing episode caused the officials to believe they ought to warn the two captains while the navy department has confidence in captain decker and i his ability to steer clear of trouble that might involve the united states still it was realized that a false move now might be interpreted as a hostile attitude on the part of tl government officials mystified over entire episode the navy department wants deck er to report fully on the â– affair be fore doing anything whatever he does the governmen wants to be done on its advice and not on his own initiative while waiting to hear from decker or from ambassador morgenthau the state and navy department offici are clearly worried they are inclined to-night to lieve that the firing upon the t^n nessee's launch was intended only a warning that the port was bl posed to be closed and that no ha was meant but until they hear officially tho admit they are mystified over i episode feared captain oman will demand apology captain oman commander of north carolina who is at beirut in touch with the tennessee at scio captain oman is the senior off and the navy department fearei he might issue instructions to th tennessee as to what to do or tha he himself might undertake to mand an apology from the turkis government it was to head any such action that the secretar of the navy hastened to take i matter out of their hands and lc it in the hands of ambassador 1 genthau at constantinople a cablegram was hurried to-day by acting secretary of state lan to ambassador morgenthau urgloi him to give explicit details up late to-night no reply had come the government has not been ii touch with morgenthau for five days the cablegrams filtering into the sec retarjr of state's office all being i layed tw.o cables that arrived fri day were five days late ln getting here government begins inqxiiry the government through the st department and navy departmattx i began early to-day an exhaustive quiry into the firing on the tern see's launch with a view to ask explanations from the ottoman s ! eminent i the solitary word given out by i navy department during the day l this paraphrase of a cable mess ' from captain 6 c decker in < < mand of the tennessee captain b â‚¬. decker in conimnn of the tennessee . wired secretar stock exchange reopens monday the Chicago stock exchange closed since july 30 will reopen for trading next monday at 9 a m this announcement made by the board of governors yesterday afternoon caused joy in la salle street brokers who i had been obliged to curtail their of i flee forces sent word to former clerks and telephone girls to return to work i in taking this action the Chicago stock exchange authorities are the first to break the deadlock on public i trading in listed securities by next monday it will have been j 115 days since the exchange was | closed this period exceeds by twen : ty-two days the previous suspension ! of the Chicago exchange in 1896 at i the time of the collapse of the spec ulation in diamond match engineered by the moore brothers in anticipation ot the resumption of business local stocks and bonds yesterday were strong in the curb market peoples gas which closed on july 30 in new york at 106 was quoted by john burnham & co at 116 bid and none offered booth fish erics first preferred which closed at r.i was rimotÂ»d t 74 bid 76 asked . commonwealth edison which on july j3o closed at 127 is now 133@134 union carbide has risen from 13h4 to ! 144 bid and 146 asked sears-roe buck common quoted at 166@169 closed i'jiv 3 at 170h and conse quently the prices must advance be fore trading in this stock will bo - permitted on the exchange kroonland is seized again by the british american liner declared to have 2,500 tons of ammunition for german army london nov 18 the american steamer kroonland recently held up hy the british admiralty at gibral tar for twelve days and only re leased when the united states made vigorous demands has been seized again in the mediterranean by a brit ish cruiser an athens dispatch states she is alleged to have 2,500 tons of munitions of war for ger many on board washington nov 18 â€” the state department has not heard of ficially that the kroonland has heen seized again she was recently re leased after being detained at gibral tar twelve days her cargo of cop per was unloaded by the british and its ownership and final disposition are up before a prize court at gibral tar italy recalls envoys worried over balkans rome nov 18 â€” the italian am bassadors to france germany aus tria and england have been sum moned to rome to discuss italy's course as regards the formation of a balkan league to prevent servia from being overwhelmed and dis membered by austria the italian government favors such a league but refuses to take the initiative leaving that course to russia which has most at stake at the present time tenor made corporal too fat to lie down special cable to the examiner paris nov is â€” maurice renaud grand opera tenor who at the age of fifty has been serving as a private at verdun has been promoted to cor poral renaud in dozens of engage ments disdainfully refused to lie down under fire i am too stout to lie on the ground he says therefore the colonel made me standard bearer r mm mm t m , Chicago and h i b 9 bdfe ka al jmt v â€” gen k jâ€”â€”â€”w b&7 dally fair thurs ffi hf jk'ft'v da y and i riila y mkm ba s^l yesterday's tem m & i jk % : ' peratures mkm^mmi average snow says overcoats day and night health-o grams have rushed the overcoat message to the men of Chicago you have got to have a new overcoat because win ter is here to stay you have got to keep your health in order to keep your position your business demands warmth while you are out doors for health's sake get that overcoat â– â– rr â€” w â€” m â€” â€” â€” â€” k

thursday i vol xii no 285 a m Chicago examiner Chicago november 19 1914 thursday registered u s patent office nmrc imc fcmt in Chicago and â€¢ elsewhebe pricl jlnfc ct-in 1 suburbs â€¢ two cents roberts body home king to go to funeral ascot england nov 18 â€” the body of field marshal earl roberts reached his home here this afternoon it is understood kins george will extend the funeral services at st paul's london emperor decorates mrs f . penfield berlin nov 18 â€” emperor franz josef of austria has conferred upon mrs frederic penfield wife of the american ambassador at vienna the grand cross of the order of eliza beth in recognition of the extraor dinary efforts she has made for the welfare of austrian soldiers aus trian newspapers emphasize the merits of this distinction which for the first time is conferred upon a woman not connected with the im perial family kaiser says holy war is proclaimed amsterdam nov 18 â€” according to a berlin dispatch the kaiser has sent the following telegram to the crown prince the sheikfi-ul islam has published a fetwa declaration of sacred law according to which every mussulman must as a religious duty fight to the uttermost against eng land russia and france oppressors of islam this fetwa to be distrib uted throughout the entire moham medan world is now proclaimed to pilgrims in mecca this means a holy war for the whole islamic world sighed william berlin offers new fashion in whiskers paris nov 18 â€” here are two daily fashion hints from berlin as they are published in paris dundreary weepers are the prop er face ornaments for soldiers at a barbers conference just held in eerlin it was decided that the ideal whiskers should resemble the aus trian kaiser's combined with tlie up turned mustache of the german em peror berlin dressmakers who are cam paigning to oust paris fashions have evolved popular war blouses of red end blue silk with gilt buttons fibs wreck health says woman doctor dr louisa burns of the a t still research institute 122 south ash land boulevard declares that continu ous telling of lies will wreck t health it will also make a woman grow old early the telling of a lie raises the blood pressure she says the sphygmo manometer substantiates this the blood pressure being raised continuously by continuous lying pro duces arterio sclerosis rockefeller's deer overrun tarrytown tarrytown n y nov 18 â€” there is nothing snobbish about john d rockefeller's deer they mix with the village folk as democratically as does their wealthy owner and every morning at least six of them follow the pocantico hills mail messenger into the postoffice here they roam about the streets unmolested and often allow the townspeople to pet them or feed them sugar p d armour to wed in new york jan 8 new york nov 18 â€” it was an nounced to-day that the marriage of miss gwendolyn b condon to philip d armour will take place on january 8 in the church of heavenly rest there will be a reception at the house of miss condon's parents mr and mrs thomas g condon at 50 east seventy-fifth street one fight will end carranza asserts villa by john w roberts general leading army to mexico city says he has trapped ex-president ei paso tex nov is general villa has caused the arrest of pres ident gutierrez following the discov ery of a plot to deliver the aguas calientes convention to carranza ac cording to dispatches to the latter's agents here orapuato mex nov 18 â€” gen eral villa's dash toward mexico city continued to-day with the celerity for which the northern leader is noted guanajuato capital of the state of the same name was taken last night by the troops under general eugenio aguirre benavides carranzistas troops have been found in all the principal towns but | thus far they have invariably fled upon the approach of the forces of the northern army up to to-night not a life has been lost on either side since the advance on mexico city from aguas calientes began carranza's men desert this morning 2,000 carranzista troops under general luis elizondo entered leon and joined the cause of the convention general villa spent the greater part of to-day in leon in conference with provisional president guiterrez the president will return to aguas ca lientes to-morrow while general villa will start for this city villa consented to be interviewed to-day predicts one big fight there will be one big fight in this new war and that will take place at either queretaro or puebla it is pos sible that the carranzistas will make i only slight resistance at queretaro but i feel certain that they will con centrate their entire strength for tho defense of puebla said villa what do you think of carranza's last conditions i think the old man has at last fallen into a trap when pablo gon zales sent a wire saying that the only condition to be imposed for the re tirement of carranza was that i leave the country i had a lengthy confer ence with president gutierrez fol lowing which i offered to tender my resignation and leave at once for the united states i told president gutierrez how ever that i did not believe carranza counted upon my resignation and that he merely imposed this condition be cause he thought it would be safe being convinced that i would not comply with the demand i told gutierrez and others by telegraph that it would be a good thing to let carranza know at once that i was leaving the country i told them that if carranza was sin cere he would at once announce sis readiness to give up the office of first chief and withdraw as i had done gutierrez sent the wire and the trap was set not twenty-four hours later came carranza's message imposing three absolutely new and impossible condi tions when president gutierrez 1 wired me the text of carranza's reply 1 i laughed till my stomach ached carranza fell into a trap he proved to the world by his conditions â– that he would not abide by the aguas calientes convention findnigs as ! soon as i heard his conditions i ended the truce and ordered my troops to ; move against the carranzistas 20,(100 to be massed : to-night the northern army is scat tered along the main line of the na tional railway from aguas calientes to a point some fifty kilometers south of this place probably there are not more than 2,000 men at any one point it is said to be villa's plan to con centrate at least 20,000 men here it is planned to send a large force from this city to take possession of guad alajara which is held by the troops of general obregon's division of the northwest under general miguel die i guez governor of jalisco it is con i sidered doubtful if any resistance i will be offered by the guadalajara garrison following the occupation of guad i alajara the attack at queretaro will i be made colonel carlos dominguez in com 1 mand of the vanguard of the conven ' tion army with 3,ooo men is to-night ! a short distance north of queretaro hoyne bushes east on secret missiofi state's attorney hoyne left for new vork yesterday on a secret mission it was reported an important arrest in the clairvoyant trust cases had been made and that he was to ques tion the prisoner clean simple valiant kipling says of roberts london nov 19 here are three stanzas of a poem by rud yard kipling on lord roberts printed in to-day's daily tele graph he passed in the very hattle smoke of the war that he had descried three hundred mile of cannon spoke when the master gunner died he passed to the very sound of the guns â– but before his eyes grew dim he had seen the faces of the sons whose sires had served with him clean simple valiant well be loved ; flawless in faith and fame avhom neither ease nor honor moved a hair's breadth from his aim u s flag ripped down in antwerp belgian declares germans then bought new one on demand of american consul london nov 18 â€” according to the daily news a belgian who ar rived in london to-night described the following incident in antwerp german soldiers tore down the american flag from the red star line office where some american ! goods were stored they ' tore it in half and then destroyed it hut when the american consul came along and demanded the flag they said they could not find it the consul then demanded they buy a new one when it was brought he hoisted it and tore down the ger man flag treating it ill the same way his own flag had been treated germans equal any troops says briton special cable to the examiner london nov 18 â€” a british gen eral commanding a brigade at the front writes in the times i am disgusted by newspaper ac counts of the inferiority of the ger mans as soldiers don't believe one word of it their courage efficiency and organization are of the very best they never were surpassed by any troops they come on in masses against our trenches and machine guns and come time after time they are always on the offensive lara full of admiration for them and so are all who know anything about them victoria b c fears attack by germans victoria b c nov 18 â€” victoria is in hourly terror of attack by a german fleet the marine depart ment of canada has ordered all light houses closed near the entrance to the harbor and has discontinued most of the light service on more distant coast points masters have been or dered to obey strictly all naval de partment regulations all lights from the international line north ward may be extinguished and cer tain channels of navigation closed race to die she says unless women vote frau rosika schwimmer who will lecture to-night in fullerton hall art instiute believes that five hun dred years will see the extermination of the human race unless women are allowed a voice in public affairs she began her peace propaganda immedi ately on entering the city yesterday she declared the war in europe could be stopped by a week o discussion woman found dying in new aurora mystery tennessee s captain warned not to lommit hostile act sultan snavyviolatesÃŸalkanneutrality victim of slugger is found in churchyard assassin crushes woman's head e with wrench case rivals hoi < lander slaying laundry mark ; 2243 only clew to identity i j ( the death beit of the fox river j valley has furnished another woman ) mystery that promises to outrival the unsolved killing of theresa hol lander and the murder of mildred rexroat whose death score was wiped clean when henry spencer was hanged a well dressed woman unidenti fied wearing three rings her head beaten and battered by blows from a heavy pipe wrench so that she could not talk was found in the yard of the free methodist church clark street and lincoln avenue aurora last night she was hurried to a hospital and anxious police tried to get from her some clew to her iden tity mentions woman upstairs 89-92-105-106 she muttered before j lapsing into unconsciousness early this morning the woman responded slightly to operations of surgeons and made a futile attempt to give her name her incoherent words indi cated however that she was married and lived in an apartment house mrs mrs upstairs she muttered then her voice turned again to the repetition of numerals physicians are attempting to re move a part of the crushed-in skull in the hope that with this pressure off her brain the woman may be able to reveal her identity it was de clared though that she could not pos sibly live â– she was found within half an hour of the time she was struck down and though the corner is on a car line in the city's best residence district the police have not yet found any one i who heard any sound of the struggle , which the torn grass shows the wom an made man seen near spot they have but one clew to work on a man was seen around the corner within half an hour of the time the woman was found and he was seen loitering around the same corner for two nights past here is the meager description of him about thirty years old smooth shaven long light overcoat black soft hat the woman was discovered by wal ter woodworth a ftfteen-year-old boy the boy was returning from a moving picture show and saw the body huddled close to the hedge he stopped a lincoln avenue car and the crew turned the headlight so that it revealed the woman top of head beaten the top of her head had been beaten in three feet from the body lay a heavy pipe wrench its iron head stained with blood the grease stains on the wrench show the po lice believe that it had been in use within the past twenty hours and was not a mere chance weapon the woman appeared to be about forty years old five feet five inches tall and about 130 pounds in weight her hair was blond streaked with gray her clothes were of fine quality and modern cut she wore ,\ gray silk dress a blue tailored eoat a purple plush hat trimmed with a lavender bow and purple lowers lightweight underwear silk stockings black shoes on her wedding ring finger was a plain gold band and a garnet set seal on the third finger of her right hand was a ruby ring worth 200 over her hands were black silk gloves and in one glave was a house key petrograd asserts whole issue of the war is likely to be settled soon as result of attack by germans london nov 19 a wireless from berlin says the german capital is celebrating a great victory won by general hindenberg in eussian poland the losses of the czar's army are estimated at 40,000 men * london nov 19 â€” a dispatch to the daily mail from liban says : it is reliably stated that a ger man cruiser sank during the bom bardment of libau after striking a mine in the harbor petrograd nov 18 â€” the of ficial statement issued to-night says between the vistula and the warthe our advance guards fell back in the direction of bzoure when the enemy took the offensive the germans succeeded in gaining a footing in the region of lent chitza and orloff throwing our advance guards in the direction of piontek in east prussia our troops con tinue to make progress and fight ing is going on near the gumbin nen-angerburg front on the front along the mazurian lakes our troops reached the wire entanglements of the german posi tion and forced them in galicia we have occupied the passes over the carpathians the general staff of the navy is sued this statement to-night on the morning of november 17 a german squadron of two cruisers ten torpedo boats and several other steamers appeared before libau the germans bombarded the city and harbor setting on fire several buildings special war dispatches of tlie ex aminer and london daily telegraph petrograd nov 18 â€” what is possibly the most critical battle yet fought on this side of the theater of war is progressing in the northwest corner of russian poland so far no details of the course the struggle is taking have been divulged here the last announcement of the general staff merely states the engagement between the vistula and i the warthe has assumed the charac ter of a big battle with considerable forces of the enemy it was a clear counter-attack the germans had made it necessary for j the russian army to concentrate some distance to the rear of the line reached by its right flank in the westerly advance the movement has also been rather sudden as the ger mans were being driven out of rypin as recently as november 13 checks russ advance it looks rather like a check to the victorious progress of the russian soldiers the semi-official army mes senger however holds out hopes that the battle will not only terminate with the defeat of the germans but may prove a long step toward the successful conclusion of the whole campaign a new phase of the war has opened this organ says the kaiser is attempting to withstand our for ! ward movement with small forces while he concentrates on one point , all his best troops we are on the i eve of decisive events which will set tle the whole issue of the european war and bring with them the possi bility of the defeat of germany land mines work havoc in the terrible hand-to-hand strug gle along the mazurian lakes the i russians are beating the german easternmost army the battles are capt b c decker commander of the u s cruiser tennessee who has been ordered away from turkey for fear complica tions will follow the firing on his launch by a smyrna fort fifty americans in smyrna in peril cables from ambassador held up envoy directed to get explanation apology will be demanded unless excuse for shot at cruiser is good washington nov 18 fear that the united states might become embroiled in the european war as an outcome of the firing by the turks on the cruiser tennessee's launch at smyrna was hinted to-night in an official statement from the navy department it read : secretary daniels has sent a message to the captains of the tennessee and north carolina both of which are in the medifer ranean to take no action that could involve this government with out specific instructions from the navy department the messages to captain decker of the tennessee and to captain oman of the north carolina were dispatched by cable to-night after sec retary daniels had conferred with acting secretary of state lansing the gravity of the situation that suddenly has arisen from the unex plained firing episode caused the officials to believe they ought to warn the two captains while the navy department has confidence in captain decker and i his ability to steer clear of trouble that might involve the united states still it was realized that a false move now might be interpreted as a hostile attitude on the part of tl government officials mystified over entire episode the navy department wants deck er to report fully on the â– affair be fore doing anything whatever he does the governmen wants to be done on its advice and not on his own initiative while waiting to hear from decker or from ambassador morgenthau the state and navy department offici are clearly worried they are inclined to-night to lieve that the firing upon the t^n nessee's launch was intended only a warning that the port was bl posed to be closed and that no ha was meant but until they hear officially tho admit they are mystified over i episode feared captain oman will demand apology captain oman commander of north carolina who is at beirut in touch with the tennessee at scio captain oman is the senior off and the navy department fearei he might issue instructions to th tennessee as to what to do or tha he himself might undertake to mand an apology from the turkis government it was to head any such action that the secretar of the navy hastened to take i matter out of their hands and lc it in the hands of ambassador 1 genthau at constantinople a cablegram was hurried to-day by acting secretary of state lan to ambassador morgenthau urgloi him to give explicit details up late to-night no reply had come the government has not been ii touch with morgenthau for five days the cablegrams filtering into the sec retarjr of state's office all being i layed tw.o cables that arrived fri day were five days late ln getting here government begins inqxiiry the government through the st department and navy departmattx i began early to-day an exhaustive quiry into the firing on the tern see's launch with a view to ask explanations from the ottoman s ! eminent i the solitary word given out by i navy department during the day l this paraphrase of a cable mess ' from captain 6 c decker in < < mand of the tennessee captain b â‚¬. decker in conimnn of the tennessee . wired secretar stock exchange reopens monday the Chicago stock exchange closed since july 30 will reopen for trading next monday at 9 a m this announcement made by the board of governors yesterday afternoon caused joy in la salle street brokers who i had been obliged to curtail their of i flee forces sent word to former clerks and telephone girls to return to work i in taking this action the Chicago stock exchange authorities are the first to break the deadlock on public i trading in listed securities by next monday it will have been j 115 days since the exchange was | closed this period exceeds by twen : ty-two days the previous suspension ! of the Chicago exchange in 1896 at i the time of the collapse of the spec ulation in diamond match engineered by the moore brothers in anticipation ot the resumption of business local stocks and bonds yesterday were strong in the curb market peoples gas which closed on july 30 in new york at 106 was quoted by john burnham & co at 116 bid and none offered booth fish erics first preferred which closed at r.i was rimotÂ»d t 74 bid 76 asked . commonwealth edison which on july j3o closed at 127 is now 133@134 union carbide has risen from 13h4 to ! 144 bid and 146 asked sears-roe buck common quoted at 166@169 closed i'jiv 3 at 170h and conse quently the prices must advance be fore trading in this stock will bo - permitted on the exchange kroonland is seized again by the british american liner declared to have 2,500 tons of ammunition for german army london nov 18 the american steamer kroonland recently held up hy the british admiralty at gibral tar for twelve days and only re leased when the united states made vigorous demands has been seized again in the mediterranean by a brit ish cruiser an athens dispatch states she is alleged to have 2,500 tons of munitions of war for ger many on board washington nov 18 â€” the state department has not heard of ficially that the kroonland has heen seized again she was recently re leased after being detained at gibral tar twelve days her cargo of cop per was unloaded by the british and its ownership and final disposition are up before a prize court at gibral tar italy recalls envoys worried over balkans rome nov 18 â€” the italian am bassadors to france germany aus tria and england have been sum moned to rome to discuss italy's course as regards the formation of a balkan league to prevent servia from being overwhelmed and dis membered by austria the italian government favors such a league but refuses to take the initiative leaving that course to russia which has most at stake at the present time tenor made corporal too fat to lie down special cable to the examiner paris nov is â€” maurice renaud grand opera tenor who at the age of fifty has been serving as a private at verdun has been promoted to cor poral renaud in dozens of engage ments disdainfully refused to lie down under fire i am too stout to lie on the ground he says therefore the colonel made me standard bearer r mm mm t m , Chicago and h i b 9 bdfe ka al jmt v â€” gen k jâ€”â€”â€”w b&7 dally fair thurs ffi hf jk'ft'v da y and i riila y mkm ba s^l yesterday's tem m & i jk % : ' peratures mkm^mmi average snow says overcoats day and night health-o grams have rushed the overcoat message to the men of Chicago you have got to have a new overcoat because win ter is here to stay you have got to keep your health in order to keep your position your business demands warmth while you are out doors for health's sake get that overcoat â– â– rr â€” w â€” m â€” â€” â€” â€” k